{"id":5432,"date":"2025-03-20T22:12:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T17:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/?p=5432"},"modified":"2025-03-20T22:12:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T17:12:42","slug":"new-york-is-that-away-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2025\/03\/20\/new-york-is-that-away-man\/","title":{"rendered":"New York is that-away, man!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5433\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5433\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NYNY-300x166.png\" alt=\"Bart Simpson and Milhouse with a sailor\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NYNY-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NYNY-1024x568.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NYNY-768x426.png 768w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NYNY-1536x852.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NYNY-672x372.png 672w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NYNY-1038x576.png 1038w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NYNY.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">image copyright Fox Entertainment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So, in exactly ONE WEEK I will be back in my beloved NYC. My home for over 20 years, where I went to college, met the love of my life, fought hard, drank hard and met the most amazing people.<\/p>\n<p>I was contacted out of the blue by the <a href=\"https:\/\/movingimage.org\/\">Museum of the Moving Image<\/a> and they invited me to show my game at the <a href=\"https:\/\/movingimage.org\/series\/marvels-of-media-festival-2025\/\">2025 Marvels of Media Festival<\/a> in Astoria, Queens. My game is to be part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/movingimage.org\/event\/marvels-of-media-exhibition-nature\/\">Adventures of Nature and the Senses<\/a> exhibition, which showcases the sensoria of people on the autism spectrum:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW231253180 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW231253180 BCX0\">Being autistic creates an\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW231253180 BCX0\">often-heightened<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW231253180 BCX0\">\u00a0sensory experience<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW231253180 BCX0\">.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW231253180 BCX0\">S<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW231253180 BCX0\">ome of us sense what we see, hear<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW231253180 BCX0\">,<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW231253180 BCX0\">\u00a0and touch in intense ways<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW231253180 BCX0\">,<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW231253180 BCX0\">leaving<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW231253180 BCX0\">\u00a0us to appreciate nature and all that exists\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW231253180 BCX0\">within it<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW231253180 BCX0\">\u00a0through this lens.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW231253180 BCX0\">Using\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW231253180 BCX0\">video art, experimental film<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW231253180 BCX0\">,<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW231253180 BCX0\">\u00a0and virtual reality, the artists in this compilation are inspired by plants, rabbits, birds, jellyfish, clouds,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW231253180 BCX0\">water<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW231253180 BCX0\">,<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW231253180 BCX0\">\u00a0and structures as they create animations and play with nonlinear forms of cinema.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_603\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-603\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-603\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200405_154329-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"watercolor paitning of a NYC bodega\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200405_154329-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200405_154329-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200405_154329-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200405_154329-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/20200405_154329-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I love bodegas, and miss them out here in CLE!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As soon as I told my wife, she immediately declared: &#8216;you&#8217;re going!&#8217; and I hastily booked a flight out- adding an extra day so I can roam the streets with camera in hand and soak of the town very dear to my heart.<\/p>\n<p>And get lots of reference photos for more paintings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, in exactly ONE WEEK I will be back in my beloved NYC. My home for over 20 years, where I went to college, met the love of my life, fought hard, drank hard and met the most amazing people. I was contacted out of the blue by the Museum of the Moving Image and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/2025\/03\/20\/new-york-is-that-away-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New York is that-away, man!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5435,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432\/revisions\/5435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletcherstudios.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}